It turns out Donald Trump is not an Artist of the Deal

… This week, Trump suffered a major defeat when he couldn’t force a House vote for the healthcare bill he endorsed. …

Power is cumulative; it rests on what the late presidential scholar Richard E. Neustadt called “reputation.”

“The greatest danger to a president’s influence,” he wrote, is whether other politicians expect him to succeed or fail. “If his failures seem to form a pattern, the consequence is bound to be a loss of faith in his effectiveness next time.”

That’s why Trump has even more on the line in his next battle, over tax reform — an issue, he’ll find, that’s every bit as complicated as healthcare. CONT.

Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times

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